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iGRF
Really should get out more Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6496 |
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Topic: Hiking technique Posted: 11 Sep 17 at 5:39pm |
I am the messiah, sent to save you all from yourselves and change your sport for the better. So I know you really want to answer my questions. 1) How do you manage to climb up the side of a 300 during a tack, do you have steps? A ladder? 2) This facial expression, obviously de rigeur in the 300 class, do you practise in the mirror at night to perfect it? |
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JimC
Really should get out more Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6648 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Sep 17 at 5:46pm |
It would be good to have classes where one could sit out with bum over side comfortably, but be prohibited from getting out those few inches further into knee destruction mode. Sadly I'm not smart enough to think of a rule that would work.
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Sam.Spoons
Really should get out more Joined: 07 Mar 12 Location: Manchester UK Online Status: Offline Posts: 3398 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Sep 17 at 6:50pm |
Yotty style guard rails that you are not allowed to sit on top of (maybe with razor wire on the top )?
Way back when I was sailing an Oppie sitting on the side was prohibited, you had to sit on the floor of the boat....... Edited by Sam.Spoons - 11 Sep 17 at 6:51pm |
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Do Different
Really should get out more Joined: 26 Jan 12 Location: North Online Status: Offline Posts: 1312 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Sep 17 at 7:44pm |
The incidence of extreme hiking except in the highest of winds could be reduced by rebalancing the normally accepted ratio of power to righting moment.
That is: less sail area to beam (Blaze Fire & full racks) , lower aspect rigs and shorter dagger boards. Of course there would be performance penalties but apart from iGRF I suspect most people here understand that you cannot bend the laws of physics to suit your perfect pattern. Last come last any dinghy will be a product of many compromises. |
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laser193713
Really should get out more Joined: 13 May 09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 889 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Sep 17 at 7:57pm |
That is also not hiking....
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423zero
Really should get out more Joined: 08 Jan 15 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3406 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Sep 17 at 8:06pm |
jimc,
Whilst sitting on side of boat, buttocks must not un-perch, head must not go lower than 45 dgrees from vertical. Call it the perching rule.
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JimC
Really should get out more Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6648 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Sep 17 at 8:19pm |
Don't forget it needs to be a rule that's enforceable at club level where there's a reluctance to protest. It needs to be easier to enforce than the current kinetics rule.
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Do Different
Really should get out more Joined: 26 Jan 12 Location: North Online Status: Offline Posts: 1312 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Sep 17 at 8:27pm |
You want a rule? Simple, ban toe straps.
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transient
Really should get out more Joined: 21 Aug 12 Online Status: Offline Posts: 715 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Sep 17 at 8:54pm |
..........tie yer genitals to the toe straps.
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Rupert
Really should get out more Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Sep 17 at 9:45pm |
Just screw plastic chairs to the decks and sit in them.
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